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“You think you are unfairly happy?” she wonders.

“Well, compared to others,” I explain.

“I think you deserve every bit of happiness that comes your way,” she tells me. “Because you are a good man, a kind man, and you love not only us, your family, but your entire clan and you would do anything for us. If that is not enough for you to deserve being truly happy, then I don’t know what is.”

The pure honesty of her words fills me with awe.

“I don’t know how, but you always manage to surprise me, even after all these years,” I admit, my heart is about to burst with tenderness for this woman.

“That is a good thing, isn’t it?” she chuckles.

“A very good thing, yes,” I nod, pressing my lips lovingly to hers for a moment.

We nestle together in bed, embracing each other. I may not be able to fall asleep for a while longer, but there is nowhere else I would rather spend a sleepless night, than in the arms of my beloved wife, listening to the rhythmical sound of her breathing and the soft beating of her heart, that belongs solely to me.

I don’t know what the future will bring. But I know that we will wait for it together.

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THE END